Shepard Smith has frequently been the lone voice of reason on Fox News. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
What MSNBC is, what cable news prime time has become in the shows that get the ratings, is the oped page of… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
The First Amendment protects the news media and the news media knows how to use it. Donald Trump doesn't understand it, he's… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
I've often wondered what it would have been like if we'd had cable news during the Vietnam War and Watergate. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Donald Trump did his usual softball interview on "Fox News" where the interviewer agreed with Trump that using that Yiddish vulgarity is… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
The [Donald] Trump transition team is already functioning as the worst transition team we have ever seen. And the good news is… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Every cable news channel was a very big business success before Donald Trump started lying about Barack Obama's birth certificate. And they… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
I've never understood the value of putting someone on television to lie, knowing that they're going to lie ahead of time, knowing… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
I don't trust news sources, and neither should other people. They should use them in the same way that they use medical… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
All writers are forced to live within deadlines, and deadlines determine how good they can be. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
The question for the Republicans running the confirmation hearings in the United States Senate is whose rules are they going to use? — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Prosecutors have absolutely no control over what witnesses say when they leave the grand jury room. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Because Republicans defected and voted with all the Democrats to reject Jeff Sessions' nomination when they discovered that when he was working as a prosecutor in Alabama, he called the NAACP Un-American. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share
In this case, the government will essentially be run by the people who are running it now. The top level [Barack] Obama appointees will… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
I've never understood the value of putting someone on television to lie, knowing that they're going to lie ahead of time, knowing that that… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
The Trump view of immigration defies our history. Immigration is a transaction that has historically benefited the country. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody knows it was Russia that broke into the DNC. She [Hillary Clinton] is saying Russia, Russia, Russia. Maybe it was.… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
If a reader comes across a story that makes them cry, you can be sure that the writer felt every single thing that makes… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
National security advisors are not there to be advocates, generally. They're not there to be partisans, they're not there to be ideologues. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Never once has Republican world said hey, maybe we should look into how police officers are carrying out their solemn public responsibility to serve… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
When Ronald Reagan nominated Jeff Sessions for federal district court judgeship, the Senate Judiciary Committee rejected his nomination. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
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